TS Planned For Cricket Academics For Social,Tribal Students

In this June students of social and tribal welfare residential schools in Telangana will learn how to play cricket and cricket techniques like yorkers and bouncers, apart from how to bowl a few googlies, flippers and so on.This is being made possible with both the Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TSWREIS) and Telangana Tribal Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TTWREIS) establishing two cricket academies each to coach cricket enthusiasts among their students.

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While one academy of TSWREIS has been set up at Chilkuru for boys, the one at Kammadanam in Shadnagar is exclusively for girls.Similarly, the TTWREIS has established one academy at Jinnaram in Medak district for boys and one in Wanaparthy district for girls. About 50 students, including boys and girls of TSWR and TTWR Schools, have been selected for each academy after testing their cricketing skills. To train students, the societies have collaborated with the Hyderabad Cricket Association too.

Students in these cricket academies will not be just given training in learning the game but will also have regular academics.The idea of setting up cricket academies is to provide a platform for students and churn out the best players for the State and also for the country. Also on offer to these welfare schools students, most of whom are from marginalised sections of society, are lessons in computer coding. Students who have a keen interest in pursuing computers in future will be taught the basics of computer coding.

Training will be given to students in the Summer Samurai camps, which will be held in three phases that began on Saturday and will go on till June 18 in 57 places across the State. Students who get trained in coding will, in turn, teach their classmates after the camps.

On the academics front, the societies have decided to intensify flipped classroom teaching. The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which traditional lecture methods are reversed. Students read a particular topic at home before the actual class session unlike in a traditional classroom. The key objective of the method is to engage them in the active learning process rather than be passive recipients.

This apart, teaching will be done through project-based methods wherein students have to go on the field like agriculture and industries to learn the subject.

“Through project-based teaching, students will get hands-on training on a particular subject and a real-life experience as well,” RS Praveen Kumar, Secretary, TSWREIS and TTWREIS, said.